Alert Labs Inc.: federal grants and contributions

Updated 12 October 2026 · Kitchener|Kitchener, ON · grants and contributions register · Kenora—Kiiwetinoong

Alert Labs Inc.: federal grants and contributions: 6 agreements; $1.5M value; 1 departments; 2 programs.

Assay record ASY-CA-1YD6K790IX · Cite as: Assay Systems, “Alert Labs Inc.: federal grants and contributions”, https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/alert-labs-inc/

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6agreements
$1.5Mvalue
1departments
2programs

Largest agreements

LoRaWAN Flowie-U$677Kvalue2024start2026end

The development of Flowie-U, an externally mounted ultrasonic water flow monitoring device that communicates using the LoRaWAN radio protocol. This will address some market barriers that currently exist with Flowie-O, such as water meter incompatibility, concerns with city utilities, difficult radio environments at some water meter locations and electromagnetic noise clouding water meter signal. Adoption of LoRaWAN will make Alert Labs’ products bidirectionally compatible with the wider ecosystem of LoRaWAN devices thus enabling adoption of more 3rd party solutions to accelerate our service of

Sentree2: Air conditioner monitor$325Kvalue2020start2022end

Sentree2 will address some of the early market fit and customer expectation problems that have prevented the existing Sentree product from scaling through Alert Labs’ extensive HVAC distribution channel. Sentree2 will aim to improve the value of the existing Sentree product by improving Alert Labs’ ability to accurately detect and notify customers of AC function anomalies. This includes improving the quality and reliability of the data that we are receiving from the monitoring device and creating a new way to analyze the data so that each unique configuration can be analyzed and understood w

Innovation Assistance Program$190Kvalue2020start2020end

The funding provided from the IAP program is to assist innovative, early stage small-and medium-sized enterprises that are unable to access existing COVID-19 business support.

Flowie-O$125Kvalue2019start2019end

Flowie-O will be an intelligent water leak detector that learns water use patterns to lower water bills and prevent damage due to leaks. It will be designed for installations in outdoor water meter pits where radio communications are difficult, where environmental conditions are harsh and where there are no power sources to power or recharge the device. Flowie-O will parallel the functionality of Alert Labs existing Flowie project, used on indoor water meters.

marketing automation$122Kvalue2021start2022end

Develop marketing automation within the lead funnel to increase conversion rates and decrease time to close, thereby incrementally increasing revenue.

Agreement$30.0Kvalue2017start–end

Departments

National Research Council Canada6agreements$1.5Mvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program

All grants from National Research Council Canada

Years

20241agreements$677Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20211agreements$122Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20202agreements$515Kvalue2programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
  • Innovation Assistance Program
20191agreements$125Kvalue1programs
  • Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
20171agreements$30.0Kvalue0programs

    Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.